Seed-planter.



W. T. MBBS.

Y. I SEED PLANTBB.

l A PPLIUATIO'H FILED KAY 9,1908. i 899,039. v Patented sepa-22,1908.

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WILLIAM T. GIBBS, OF LOUISVILLE, GEORGIA.

SEED-PLANTER.

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l To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WiLLrAM T. Gines, a citizen of the United States, residing at Louisville, in t-he county of Jefferson, State of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements vin Seed-Planters; vand I do hereby declare theifollowing to be a full,-

clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and *use the same.

This invention relates to seed planters. The primary object of the invention is to provide a seed planter having a hopperl which is freely movable vertically so that a furrow of a constant depth may be plowed without interference by the hopper or rather its supporting wheel.

Heretofore, hoppers of seed planters have been ixedly mounted upon the planter frame so far as I am advised but such a construction is undesirable inasmuch asA the wheel for rotating the distributing barrel of `\the planter' and which rotates at the lower jend of the hopper, travels over the inequali- \`-'ti c`s\in the surface of the ground and tends to raisethe hoppe'r and lower it during travel of thelniachine. It is desirable however that thisrlisadvantage be over come and that the furrow opener of the planter be permitted to travel through the soil at a constant depth and in carrying out my invention I aim to accomplish this result.

In the accompan ing drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of te improved seed planter.

Fig. 2 is a top plan view, Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view, Fig. 4 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view, and, Fig. 5 is a horizontal sectional view.\

As shown in the drawings, the planter embodying my invention 'comprises a draft beam 10 at the rear end of which is formed or secured a plow standard 11 at the lower end of which is attached a plow shovel 12 which, as theplanter is drawn through a field, serves to open or form a furrow in advance of the feeding mechanism which will be presently described. Side sills 1'3 are secured at their forward end one to each side of the plow standard or stock 11 at a point directly below the rear end of the beam 10 and these sills extend rearwardly from the said standard in spaced parallel relation with respect to each other and have attached to their rear ends standards 14 at the lower end of which are attached coverer blades 15 which serve toA close the furrow opened by' the shovel 12, the said sills being braced at their rear ends by means of a cross piece 16. Handles 17 which are two in number are secured one to each side of the draftbeam 10 andextend upwardly and rearwardly therefrom in diverging planes and are connect-ed at their upper rear ends by means of a cross bar 18. Secured at their lower ends to the upper side of each of the sills 13 is a pair of uprights 2O which are parallel with res ect to each other and which form between t em guides, the handles of the machine being also secured to the said uprights and extending across the respective pairs.

The ho per of the machine comprises a front wal 21, an inclined rear wall 22, side walls 23 and a bottom which will be presently s ec'iically described. Fixed upon each of tide side walls 23 of the liopper is a slide which is in the nature of .a beam 24 each Aof the beams being received between the uprights of the pair at the corresponding side of the machine as is clearly shown in the side elevation of the drawings.

As clearly shown, the slides not onl work between the res ective guides but a so between the handles and the corresponding sides of the hopper and directly inwardly of of the respective beams 13 the out-er side of each of the slides being cut away as indicated i by the numeral 25 to provide longitudinal seats adapted to receive the respective beams 13 it being understood that by cutting away the slide, upper and lower shoulders 26- and 27 respectively are formed, the liist mentioned shoulders serving to limit the downward sliding movement of the hopper within the frame and the last mentioned shoulders serving to limit its upward sliding movement it being undeistood that the hopper is freely slidable between those two limits and that 1t does so slide according to the inequalities in the surface of the ground\ over which `the wheel su porting the hop er travels. 'Ihe w reel mentioned aIiove is indicated b i the numeral 2S and is ournaledfor rotationk uporra shaft 29 which at its end is fixed in the lower ends of the slides, the wheel being provided with a laterally projecting hub 30 mun i 34 which registers Vith the ieup p .lin the hub atl each revolution of the sad-hunit being un-V derstood that seeds Vto be planted are discharged through the opening`\and into the cup and thrown or dropped fnn the cupupon further rotation of the ufl eel. By

mountingr the hopper for \"ert.i\caslidiug plane and interposed between said pairs of uprights; a vertieally-disposed slide -secured to each side of said hopper and fitted be tween the adjacent pair of u nights, said slides extending above and bellow the sills and being out anay intermediate their ends to provide longitudinal seats adapted to 1e eeiYe said sills, for limiting the upward and downward movement of the hop ier; an axle earried'by the loiret ends of sani In testimony whereof, I allix my signature, in presence of two witnesses. i WILLIAM T. Grens.

' lVitnesses: y i

J. l. MCLUGHLIN, II. D. MURPHY. .e

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